What is the difference between an e-publisher and a vanity press?
None. The vanity press, for a fee, promises to publish your book and promote it. The e-publisher is doing the exact same thing. Both fail to have the distribution, contacts, reputation, access to markets and clout of a p-publisher. E-publishers have found a novel and wonderfully deceptive means to lure desperate writers to finally be published and offer incredible royalties. Sure, you will receive everything they promise to do for you. Your e-book will be published. It will be listed on a Web site or two or three. But they will they take on the responsibility to get your book sold? A publisher must sell books to be paid, so they aggressively sell your books. The vanity press only wants your money, and in return, they will print your books. The e-publisher also wants your money to list your book. No difference; both want your money. Both prey on the author’s desperation to be published.
